Radhika Jones is the editor in chief of Vanity Fair. Since her appointment in December of 2017, the magazine has been widely recognized for its fresh direction, beginning with her first, groundbreaking cover subject, Lena Waithe, and has grown its audience significantly across digital and social platforms. More recently, VF has extended its reach in Hollywood to include a film and television studio and has expanded its events business to include a presence at major film and art festivals worldwide, in addition to the flagship Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Jones hosts Vanity Fair’s politics podcast, Inside the Hive, and over the course of her career has interviewed luminaries ranging from Barbra Streisand to Shonda Rhimes to Malala.
Jones’s first job in journalism was at The Moscow Times, an English-language newspaper in Russia, in the mid-’90s. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Jones held senior editorial roles at The New York Times, Time (where she steered the annual Time 100 and Person of the Year issues), and The Paris Review. She has also served as an editor at Artforum and Bookforum, and managing editor at Grand Street. Jones graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard, and holds a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. She is a member of the boards of CARE, The Paris Review, and the American Society of Magazine Editors. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.
Nalini Jones is the author of a novel, The Unbroken Coast (Knopf, August 2025), and a story collection, What You Call Winter. The novel was supported by a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship, and her short fiction has been awarded O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. Her work has appeared in publications such as One Story, Ploughshares, Guernica, Elle India, and The New York Times, and she has contributed to anthologies about HIV in India, siblings, and music.
She currently teaches creative writing at Fairfield University; past appointments have been Columbia University, Williams College, Yale University, and the Arcadia University Center in Greece A longtime coordinator of live music events, she was associate producer of the Newport Folk Festival from 2004-2009, line producer of From the Big Apple to the Big Easy, Madison Square Garden 2005, and artistic coordinator of Route 57, A Festival of American Roots Music at Carnegie Hall in 2006, among many others. She continues to work at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Saratoga Jazz Festival.
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